Goldilocks

I woke up early to walk the Bun Run downtown with a close friend while my mom was running. We had to do a bit of negotiating (smiling) in order to get a shirt and number for a friend who wasn't there but said she signed up. She only wanted the shirt even though she couldn't make it because it's "one of the most coveted shirts in Austin". It happened...everyone got a shirt and we had an enjoyable walk. We walked towards the capitol, with some people dressed in Southwest Airlines mini airplanes, and ran in the last .005 mile. It was nice to get out and get a bit of exercise on such a beautiful day.

My mom and I then ventured to Home Depot to pick out some flowers for my apartment. They were definitely the right choices. We also wanted to get some balcony furniture but everything was too expensive. She traveled home and left me to find balcony chairs on my own. I am incapable of picking some things out on my own and these were one of those things. Jackie (my tennis partner) came over so we could find some chairs. After all, she would be using these chairs when she came over. We went to Big Lots and sat in about 5 different chairs...they were all too hard, too cheap, or too expensive. Luckily our next stop was Wal-Mart and we found chairs that were JUST RIGHT...comfort and price. As we were trying to maneuver these chairs into my car (which is full of boxes of books for school), a Wal-Mart guy came up and asked if we were okay. I laughingly said no. He then told us exactly how to make them fit and moved things around. He got them in the first try without any sort of struggle. He did get a few laughs from us though (hopefully it made his day). I said today that each day I like to make someone else laugh...even if it's at my expense. As long as I'm laughing too, all is well...and even if I'm not, I probably deserve it.

With only two scraps on our legs, we managed to carry the chairs up the stairs and arrange them on my balcony. Now my balcony is an extension of my living room on beautiful Austin days.